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Tyson declares dividend and sets new high

Tyson Foods’ board of directors has declared a cash dividend of 5 cents for each A share and 4 cents for the restricted B class shares. The dividend is payable…

Tyson Foods scores an ‘A’ on sustainable efforts

Tyson Foods Inc. received an “A” from the Global Reporting Initiative for its latest corporate social responsibility report, company officials announced today. The new sustainability report is the fourth…

NWA building pace rose sharply in 2012

Building permit values across Northwest Arkansas rose 74% during 2012, as construction crews logged more hours and completed more jobs than in the prior two years combined. The four largest…

Bank profit recovery shows progress in 2012

The community banking sector across Northwest Arkansas held on to 14.5% more profits in 2012 than in the prior year. The group surveyed by The City Wire includes 17 banks…

Senators quiz officials on steel mill ‘superproject’

Arkansas economic and finance leaders fielded more than two-and-a-half hours of questions from the Arkansas State Senate on the state’s recruiting of a $1.1 billion Big River Steel Mill superproject…

Republican Curtis Coleman enters race for governor

Republican businessman Curtis Coleman announced today (Feb. 4) that he will seek his party's nomination for governor in 2014. In a phone call to The City Wire on Monday, Coleman…

Arvest Mortgage Company Announces Record-Breaking Year

Results in 2012 indicate a surge in purchase loans.

Arkansas banker, developer Doyle Rogers dies

Doyle Rogers, chairman of the board of Metropolitan National Bank and a highly successful real estate developer and businessman, has died at the age of 94. Metropolitan Bank CEO Lunsford…

Sparks Selected to Participate in New Initiative

Program will test how bundling payments can improve care and lower costs.

Bill filing and bill killing

• Senate Report: Week 3 review This past week saw some extremely positive news from the Governor with the announcement of our state’s first “Super Project” which happened to be…

Consumer spending trending flat in Arkansas

Consumer spending in Arkansas is trending almost flat, but overall Arkansas tax collections for the first seven months of the fiscal year totals $3.409 billion, or 3.7% higher than the…

Homeless number likely rising despite improving economy

A survey of Northwest Arkansas’s homeless that began Thursday (Jan. 31) will take a few days to process, but the results can have far-reaching effects, from the amount of federal…

MANA Spring Fling 5K & Family Fun Run

Please join us to help raise money for the MANA Charitable Fund that provides community health grants for education and awareness in Northwest Arkansas. Do your part by choosing to…